Tablet BM 31109

NaBuCCo ID 270
Museum No. BM 31109
CDLI P-Identifier
Place of issue
Type and content Purchase
Archive
Period NB
Year BCE 555
Editio princeps Nbn. 40
Paraphrase Sale of slaves.
A, of his own free will, sells two women of his domestic staff (nišū bīti) fC1 and fC2, to B1 und B2 for a hariṣ-price amounting to 50 shekels of silver. The seller guarantees against (suits brought by) a person acting unlawfully (sēhû) or a person claiming (pāqirānu) that these slaves are free persons (mār banê). Names of 5 witnesses and the scribe.
 
A = Nabû-kāṣir/Nabû-zēru-līšir; B1 = Mušēzib-Marduk/Marduk-ēṭir//Nappāhu; B2 = Marduk-šumu- iddin/Nabû-ahhē-iddin//Nappāhu; fC1 = fDidinnatu; fC2 = fAlakšu-lūmur
Transliteration None
Babylonian Date (year-month-day): Nbn. yy-VIII-dd